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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OklahomaPage Henry BELCHER
(1899-1980)
BELCHER, Page Henry, a
Representative from Oklahoma; born in Jefferson, Grant County,
Okla., April 21, 1899, on the claim his father took in the opening
of the Cherokee Strip; attended high school at Jefferson and
Medford, Okla.; student at Friends University, Wichita, Kans., and
the University of Oklahoma at Norman; veteran of the First World
War; court clerk of Garfield County, Okla., 1934-1938; studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of law
in Enid, Okla.; municipal judge, Enid, Okla., in 1938; eighth
district chairman, ten years; State executive secretary of
Republican Party; secretary to Congressman Ross Rizley in 1941;
member of Enid Board of Education; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-second and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1951-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for renomination in 1972
to the Ninety-third Congress; was a resident of Midwest City,
Okla., where he died August 2, 1980; interment in Memorial Park
Cemetery, Enid, Okla.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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